History Main / AmericaWonWorldWarII

** In Market Garden, the British armor support is shown to be [[TanksForNothing completely ineffective]], forcing Easy Company to retreat (In the book, Ambrose not-so-subtly implies that Operation Market Garden was doomed to fail and that Patton's plan for crossing the Rhine would have been far more effective - a longtime debate in military history circles, with those historians more familiar with the American archival and memoir material favouring to favour Patton and those more familiar with the British tending to favour Monty).

* In the Italian-American production ''Film/UnderTenFlags'', the spy who steals the German naval code that enables the Admiralty to sink the German commerce raider ''Atlantis'' is an American army officer, despite the fact that the United States had not entered the war at this stage. A fact shown in the opening scene where ''Atlantis'' disguises itself as a Japanese vessel because Japan was a neutral country at the time!

* In the Italian-American production ''Film/UnderTenFlags'', the spy who steals the German naval code that enables the Admiralty to sink the German commerce raider ''Atlantis'' is an American army officer, despite the fact that the United States had not entered the war at this stage, a fact shown by ''Atlantis'' disguising itself as a Japanese vessel because Japan was a neutral country at the time!

* "We cannot win it (the war) without the Americans!" Says Churchill in ''Film/IntoTheStorm2009'' (the Churchill biopic). Despite this, the movie actually subverts this: the Americans are shown as worthy allies, but the British (and to a lesser extent the Russians) are shown as just as responsible, if not more so, for the ultimate victory.

* The (People's Republic of) Chinese equivalent appears in ''Film/IpMan'', which is set during the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar. The concluding captions mention China's defeat of Japan without mentioning [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Guomindang or the international Allied forces]] that had pushed UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan back and blockaded the Home Islands in preparation for an amphibious invasion. In reality, the Guomindang and their warlord allies acted as a huge punching bag, losing battle after battle until the United States, Britain, and later the Soviet Union entered the conflict. The importance of US Lend-lease - which was critical to propping the Guomindang with things like massive loans and anti-tank weaponry - also goes unmentioned, naturally. The film also outright lies to the audience when it mentions that Master Ip flees to Hong Kong during the war to avoid the Japanese. This is wrong in three accounts: first, Hong Kong was also occupied by the Japanese during the war so there was no logical reason for Ip Man to move; second, he moved during the 1950s, not the 1940s; and three, the real Ip Man was ''a member of the Guomindang'' and he fled to Hong Kong to escape the communists, which made sense since Hong Kong was still a British territory at the time and the CCP would have probably executed him if he remained in the mainland.

The D-Day landings are another good example. Many American-made productions will focus solely on Omaha Beach, the most heavily fortified of the four landing sites as well as the best-defended--both facts which Allied intelligence failed to realize prior to the operation. The carnage that ensued is a favourite among producers, since it emphasizes the sacrifice Americans made during the war--but doing so gives the impression that Omaha Beach was ''the'' decisive turning point that led to the Allied victory in Europe, rather than the dual blows by the Soviets at Stalingrad and Kursk a year earlier. The focus on Omaha Beach is also partially because ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' did it, [[FollowTheLeader other games/movies/TV shows want to replicate its success]], and because it's more exciting to show a strongly opposed landing than an unopposed one -- not that the other landings were exactly unopposed (for instance, Canadian troops landing at Juno Beach on that day faced opposition almost as formidable, with a ''full-blown tank battle'' raging right on the beach, but punched through quickly and made the best progress of any Allied force towards their objectives on that Longest Day in spite of it[[note]]Due to better small-unit communication and leadership, something the military training of smaller nation-states tends to emphasize given their lesser material resources. Not to mention that the Canadians accepted Britain's "Hobart's Funnies" line of specialized function tanks to give the landing troops armor support.[[/note]]), but still.

* ''[[Film/{{Fortress2012}} Fortress]]'' focuses on a B-17 crew in the 99th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 12th Air Force flying out of North Africa in 1943. Despite the narrow focus, this gets averted when every mission briefing includes a mention of RAF bombers hitting high-risk targets too. No mention of the Russians, but it's justified because they were only slightly more relevant than the Japanese in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E28TheCityOnTheEdgeOfForever}} The City on the Edge of Forever]]". Due to pacifist movement USA did not enter WW II, and Hitler won precisely because of it, causing humanity to be enslaved and never reaching the stars.

* Whenever the French were mentioned in front of [[Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond Raymond's dad]], his automatic response was "Pulled their ass out of two world wars!"
** Which was deeply ironic, coming from a [[NationalStereotypes Italian-American]]....

** This is continued in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'', where while all-American Badass B.J. gets the most done, he wouldn't be nearly as effective if he didn't have the help of the same resistance movement, still primarily made up of Germans, to make sure he's in the right place to do his thing. Not to mention that the game is more or less a direct inversion, with America - and for that matter, everyone who ''isn't'' Germany - [[AlternateHistory losing the war]].
*** You can find various newspaper clips detailing the Nazis conquests of various other nations besides the US, including the Nazis turning on their former Italian and Japanese allies.

** Parodied indirectly in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding Lisa's Wedding]]"; in an episode set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, Moe tells Lisa's British fiance that "We saved your ass in World War II." The fiance replies "Well, we saved ''your'' [America's] arse in World War ''[[WorldWarIII III]]''", and Moe [[{{Touche}} concedes the point.]]

--->'''Teacher:''' [when the bells ring] Wait a minute! You didn't learn how World War II ended!
--->[The class waits expectantly.]
--->'''Teacher''': We won!
--->'''Class''': [running out of the building, cheering] Yay! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!

* The (People's Republic of) Chinese equivalent appears in ''Film/IpMan'', which is set during the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar. The concluding captions mention China's defeat of Japan without mentioning [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Guomindang or the international Allied forces]] that had pushed UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan back and blockaded the Home Islands in preparation for an amphibious invasion. In reality, the Guomindang and their warlord allies acted as a huge punching bag, losing battle after battle until the United States, Britain, and later the Soviet Union entered the conflict. The importance of US Lend-lease - which was critical to propping the Guomindang with things like massive loans and anti-tank weaponry - also goes unmentioned, naturally. It also completely skips the part where the real Master Ip didn't like the communists any better than he liked the Japanese, which is why he left Mao's domain in 1947 for British-controlled Hong Kong, where he trained a promising young man named [[Creator/BruceLee Bruce]].

* Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia: Set in WWII. America's plan to defeat Germany? All the other Allies support him while he wins the war. "I'm the Hero!"

* ''Comicbook/SgtRock'' and his 1960s spin-off series ''The Losers'' had one small team of US commandos pretty much holding up the Allied war effort.

** Parodied indirectly in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding Lisa's Wedding]]"; in an episode set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, Moe tells Lisa's British fiance that "We saved your ass in World War II." The fiance replies "Well, we saved ''your'' [America's] arse in World War ''[[WorldWarIII III]]''", and Moe concedes the point.

America Won World War II is a form of HollywoodHistory in which a story implies or outright states that the United States single-handedly won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Sometimes, it's unintentional; the viewpoint or focus is simply too narrow for the audience to be reminded of the bigger picture. Other times, though, it's a blatant example of HollywoodHistory.

The D-Day landings are another good example. Many American-made productions will focus solely on Omaha Beach, the most heavily fortified of the four landing sites as well as the best-defended--both facts which Allied intelligence failed to realize prior to the operation. The carnage that ensued is a favourite among producers, since it emphasizes the sacrifice Americans made during the war--but doing so gives the impression that Omaha Beach was ''the'' decisive turning point that led to the Allied victory in Europe, rather than the dual blows by the Soviets at Stalingrad and Kursk a year earlier. The focus on Omaha Beach is also partially because ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' did it, [[FollowTheLeader other games/movies/TV shows want to replicate its success]], and because it's more exciting to show a strongly opposed landing than an unopposed one -- not that the other landings were exactly unopposed (for instance, Canadian troops landing at Juno Beach on that day faced opposition almost as formidable, with a ''full-blown tank battle'' raging right on the beach, but punched through quickly and made the best progress of any Allied force towards their objectives on that Longest Day in spite of it[[note]]Due to better small-unit communication and leadership, something the military training of smaller nation-states tends to emphasize given their lesser material resources. Not to mention that the Canadians accepted "Hobart's Funnies" such as the amphibious tanks to give the landing troops armor support.[[/note]]), but still.

* ''VideoGame/RisingStorm'', in contrast to ''VideoGame/RedOrchestra'', which focused on the Eastern Front, focuses on the US Army and Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater.

* In ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle'' and [[Series/TheManInTheHighCastle its TV adapatation]], Germany and Japan won World War II because the United States never entered the war. It is very much possible that the Axis would have won in this circumstance, but the idea that they would [[CurbStompBatte straight up flatten]] the other Allies as depicted in the novel seems unlikely.

In particularly nasty cases, films based on actual WWII events will be warped to make the most prominent characters into US soldiers--see Steve [=McQueen=] in ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' and, perhaps most infamously, the film ''Film/{{U571}}''. It will occasionally even be said that WWII only began on December 7, 1941, when the United States entered the war. Other factually wrong but more playful revisionisms are for example the Americans killing Hitler in Film/InglouriousBasterds.

The D-Day landings are another good example. Many American-made productions will focus solely on Omaha Beach, the most heavily fortified of the four landing sites as well as the best-defended--both facts which Allied intelligence failed to realize prior to the operation. The carnage that ensued is a favourite among producers, since it emphasizes the sacrifice Americans made during the war--but doing so gives the impression that Omaha Beach was ''the'' decisive turning point that led to the Allied victory in Europe, rather than the dual blows by the Soviets at Stalingrad and Kursk a year earlier. The focus on Omaha Beach is also partially because ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' did it, [[FollowTheLeader other games/movies/TV shows want to replicate its success]], and because it's more exciting to show a strongly opposed landing than an unopposed one -- not that the other landings were exactly unopposed (for instance, Canadian troops landing at Juno Beach on that day faced opposition almost as formidable, with a ''full-blown tank battle'' raging right on the beach, but punched through quickly and made better progress towards their objectives in spite of it[[note]]Due to better small-unit communication and leadership, something the military training of smaller nation-states tends to emphasize given their lesser material resources. Not to mention that the Canadians accepted "Hobart's Funnies" such as the amphibious tanks to give the landing troops armor support.[[/note]]), but still.

When this trope is in play the efforts and contributions of the other Allies are downplayed. Egregiously, the Soviet-German war is considered a ''sideshow'' - if it's even mentioned at all. Approximately [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Forces 80% of the deployable Germany Army]] was engaged against the Soviets on three/four Fronts in 1941-1942, dropping down to "merely" 60% in 1943-1945 when the partisan war (in the occupied USSR, Balkans, and elsewhere) intensified and Americans and Commonwealth forces opened up three new fronts in Italy, Western Europe, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_of_the_Reich over Germany,]] making the Eastern Front by far the largest land combat theater of the war. The Germans lost [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#Statistical_study_by_R.C3.BCdiger_Overmans about 75% of their total dead]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#OKW_War_Diary and wounded there,]] with about 1 million dead in France+Italy+Benelux+West Germany vs 4 million dead in the USSR+Poland+Romania+East Germany (and a couple hundred thousand dead in every other area). On the other hand, prisoner numbers before the final collapse of German forces in April 1945 (before which the Germans were still resisting as hard as they could) and surrender upon the 7th of May were more balanced owing to the massive encirclements (most famously during Operation Overlord, but also at the Ruhr Pocket, in Operation Dragoon, and elsewhere) made by the Americans and Commonwealth forces in France, with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_northwest_Europe the Western Allies taking 1.3 million]] soldiers prisoner in France/Benelux,[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II) 0.85 million]] in Italy, and 0.15 million in North Africa (total 2.3 million troops) before April 1945 and the Soviets [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union#German_POWs_in_the_USSR only taking about 2 million]] in the East. Thus, the number of irrecoverable losses, not counting April/May surrenders, were 3.3 million against the American-led Western Allies (1 million killed, 2.3 million captured) and 5.9 million against the Soviets (4 million dead, 1.9 million captured). Thereafter the numbers were swelled by the last combat troops and the bulk of the Army logistics troops, policemen, paramilitaries, Volkssturm, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine personnel (many of whom fled West) surrendering en masse in most of April, for final prisoner totals of 5.2 million versus 3.1 million before the formal surrender, and final irrecoverable losses of 6.2 million against the Western Allies (1 million killed, 5.2 million captured) and 7.1 million against the USSR [[AndZoidberg and Poland]] (4 million killed, 3.1 million captured).

** Parodied indirectly in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding Lisa's Wedding]]"; in an episode set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, Moe tells Lisa's British fiance that "We saved your ass in World War II." The fiance replies "Well, we saved your [America's] ''arse'' in World War ''[[WorldWarIII III]]''", and Moe concedes the point.

* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' was criticized for this in the UK, since the sole reference in the movie to any non-American involvement in the battle was a brief exchange on how "overrated" General [[UsefulNotes/BernardLawMontgomery Montgomery]] was. Of course, like its successor, ''Series/BandOfBrothers'', the narrative maintains a narrow focus on a small unit who might not have encountered foreign Allied soldiers during their mission and might have actually espoused this opinion (Field Marshal Montgomery being not-very-popular with a large segment of the American military).
** Despite his good publicity, Montgomery made some major mistakes in his conduct of the Northwest Europe campaign (failing to secure the Scheldt Estuary being one of them). A particularly touchy issue is his conduct during the Battle of the Bulge, [[BlatantLies when the press misquoted him at a press conference taking credit for saving the Americans]]. While he had indeed been given operational control of U.S. armies on the northern side of the Bulge, some of his comments were interpreted as a slight against the top U.S. commanders in the ETO while others, praising the Americans, were ignored by the media. The fact he had a press conference at all drove the wedge between himself and Eisenhower deeper.

When this trope is in play the efforts and contributions of the other Allies are downplayed. Egregiously, the Soviet-German war is considered a ''sideshow'' - if it's even mentioned at all. Approximately [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Forces 80% of the deployable Germany Army]] was engaged against the Soviets on three/four Fronts in 1941-1942, dropping down to "merely" 60% in 1943-1945 when the partisan war (in the occupied USSR, Balkans, and elsewhere) intensified and Americans and Commonwealth forces opened up three new fronts in Italy, Western Europe, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_of_the_Reich over Germany,]] making the Eastern Front by far the largest land combat theater of the war (though most of the Navy and [[http://don-caldwell.we.bs/jg26/thtrlosses.htm at least half the air force]] was lost against the Western Allies, fairly major when [[https://i.imgur.com/41vANzB.jpg aircraft alone]] were some 40% of the German military budget with ships/subs at 10%- as compared to 20% for ALL artillery, small arms, and motor vehicles, plus tanks at a mere 5%). The Germans lost [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#Statistical_study_by_R.C3.BCdiger_Overmans about 75% of their total dead]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#OKW_War_Diary and wounded there,]] with about 1 million dead in France+Italy+Benelux+West Germany vs 4 million dead in the USSR+Poland+Romania+East Germany (and a couple hundred thousand dead in every other area). On the other hand, prisoner numbers before the final collapse of German forces in April 1945 (before which the Germans were still resisting as hard as they could) and surrender upon the 7th of May were more balanced owing to the massive encirclements (most famously during Operation Overlord, but also at the Ruhr Pocket, in Operation Dragoon, and elsewhere) made by the Americans and Commonwealth forces in France, with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_northwest_Europe the Western Allies taking 1.3 million]] soldiers prisoner in France/Benelux,[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II) 0.85 million]] in Italy, and 0.15 million in North Africa (total 2.3 million troops) before April 1945 and the Soviets [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union#German_POWs_in_the_USSR only taking about 2 million]] in the East. Thus, the number of irrecoverable losses, not counting April/May surrenders, were 3.3 million against the American-led Western Allies (1 million killed, 2.3 million captured) and 5.9 million against the Soviets (4 million dead, 1.9 million captured). Thereafter the numbers were swelled by the last combat troops and the bulk of the Army logistics troops, policemen, paramilitaries, Volkssturm, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine personnel (many of whom fled West) surrendering en masse in most of April, for final prisoner totals of 5.2 million versus 3.1 million before the formal surrender, and final irrecoverable losses of 6.2 million against the Western Allies (1 million killed, 5.2 million captured) and 7.1 million against the USSR [[AndZoidberg and Poland]] (4 million killed, 3.1 million captured).

Some see this general 'limited scope' thing as extending to the "official" date of the war's beginning, September 1st, 1939, the date of Germany's invasion of Poland. Most, however, accept that the moniker of 'World War' denotes merely the geography of a war (the British Empire alone spanned three continents at the time), rather than implying the conflict wasn't 'serious' or something ([[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan the Japan of the time]], and many Japanese ultranationalists since, call it [[InsistentTerminology 'The China Incident']]). Though bloody and horrific in its own right[[note]]With war-dead to the tune of at least 10 and as many as 20 million (the Chinese Civil War that followed has to account for another 10 million or so, but Communist China, in [[ImplausibleDeniability classic form, likes to pretend that no one died in it]]), as well as an impressive gamut of war-crimes like mass-rape (e.g. Nanjing) and live-human-experimentation[[/note]], [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar the war]] that [[UsefulNotes/ChiangKaiShek Chiang Kai-Shek's]] [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors Guomindang]] waged against UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan wasn't part of the 'World War' until the Imperial Navy lashed out to take Malaya and the Philippines.[[note]]Surprisingly, it wasn't until then that the Republic of China got around to formally declaring war on Japan, which further complicates the matter of when World War II started.[[/note]]

Lastly, winning a war means nothing unless one also [[StrategyVersusTactics "wins the peace"]], as was the case [[UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars in Vienna in 1815]] and infamously not [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI at Versailles in 1918]]. In the aftermath of World War II, the USA and Britain and the USSR all deserve recognition for demarking and respecting crystal-clear 'spheres of influence' that kept the peace despite the outbreak of the Yugoslavian, Greek, and [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors Chinese]] civil wars. When the CCP gained the upper hand in the Chinese Civil War, and the USA began to [[RedScare see the USSR as a threat]], the USA also began to funnel a great deal of money into reconstructing Western European economies[[note]]Britain got a lot less than France or Germany, as conservative American opinion was appalled that they had the temerity to elect a socialist government; Britain were still repaying US loans, written off for other countries, well into the 1980s. This, perhaps not surprisingly, didn't exactly help endear Americans to the British, especially with regards to this trope.[[/note]] so that they [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar could sustain larger militaries and thus avoid the need for committing US troops to Western Europe in its defense]]. The membership of the USSR and USA in the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations also gave it a lot more clout than its predecessor the League of Nations.

When this trope is in play the efforts and contributions of the other Allies are downplayed. Egregiously, the Soviet-German war is considered a ''sideshow'' - if it's even mentioned at all. Approximately [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Forces 80% of the deployable Germany Army]] was engaged against the Soviets on three/four Fronts in 1941-1942, dropping down to "merely" 60% in 1943-1945 when the partisan war (in the occupied USSR, Balkans, and elsewhere) intensified and Americans and Commonwealth forces opened up three new fronts in Italy, Western Europe, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_of_the_Reich over Germany,]] making the Eastern Front by far the largest land combat theater of the war (though most of the Navy and [[http://don-caldwell.we.bs/jg26/thtrlosses.htm at least half the air force]] was lost against the Western Allies, fairly major when [[https://i.imgur.com/41vANzB.jpg aircraft alone]] were some 40% of the German military budget with ships/subs at 10%- as compared to 20% for ALL artillery, small arms, and motor vehicles, plus tanks at a mere 5%). The Germans lost [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#Statistical_study_by_R.C3.BCdiger_Overmans about 75% of their total dead]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#OKW_War_Diary and wounded there]], with about 1 million dead in France+Italy+Benelux+West Germany vs 4 million dead in the USSR+Poland+Romania+East Germany (and a couple hundred thousand dead in every other area). On the other hand, prisoner numbers before the final collapse of German forces in April 1945 (before which the Germans were still resisting as hard as they could) and surrender upon the 7th of May were more balanced owing to the massive encirclements (most famously during Operation Overlord, but also at the Ruhr Pocket, in Operation Dragoon, and elsewhere) made by the Americans and Commonwealth forces in France, with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_northwest_Europe the Western Allies taking 1.3 million]] soldiers prisoner in France/Benelux,[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II) 0.85 million]] in Italy, and 0.15 million in North Africa (total 2.3 million troops) before April 1945 and the Soviets [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union#German_POWs_in_the_USSR only taking about 2 million]] in the East. Thus, the number of irrecoverable losses, not counting April/May surrenders, were 3.3 million against the American-led Western Allies (1 million killed, 2.3 million captured) and 5.9 million against the Soviets (4 million dead, 1.9 million captured). Thereafter the numbers were swelled by the last combat troops and the bulk of the Army logistics troops, policemen, paramilitaries, Volkssturm, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine personnel (many of whom fled West) surrendering en masse in most of April, for final prisoner totals of 5.2 million versus 3.1 million before the formal surrender, and final irrecoverable losses of 6.2 million against the Western Allies (1 million killed, 5.2 million captured) and 7.1 million against the USSR [[AndZoidberg and Poland]] (4 million killed, 3.1 million captured).

Cases of this trope are not limited to the European Theater. Most films featuring the Pacific theater only focus on the naval and air battles fought by the U.S., appearing as though they were the sole force fighting in the Pacific. In reality Chinese, Soviet, Indian, British, and Australian forces played significant roles against overwhelming forces in atrocious conditions, and many other countries contributed as well. Indeed, the [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar brutally violent war in China]] is probably the most ignored battlefront of the war. This neglect is strange given that it was the longest conflict (starting in 1937) and believed to be the second-bloodiest theater of war in human history after the Eastern European theater.

** Played straight, however, in ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAirborne'', where each mission ends with a debriefing voice-over from the commanding officer. After a relatively minor skirmish in Italy in early 1943, he proclaims "the war has begun", and after a very over-the-top raid on a flak tower in early 1945 he says that the war is over and effectively gives the Airborne itself full credit in his speech. The British are mentioned in passing in one mission, Operation Market Garden - fascinatingly, in contrast to the earlier ''[=MoH=]: Frontline'', it is presented as a great victory in spite of the fact it's actually the Allies' most notorious bungle. It's also an example of the reverse angle (as in the Axis consisting entirely of Germans), as despite half the game taking place in Italy you only fight Italian blackshirts in the first half of the first level - where they are [[ArtificialStupidity much dumber than the German soldiers]][[note]]Italian ''soldiers'' were actually pretty competent, to the point Erwin Rommel noted they were better than his own German troops at times - it was their ''commanders'' that [[MilesGloriosus had]] [[TheNeidermeyer issues]][[/note]] and [[ImproperlyPlacedFirearms only use German weapons]].

* ''[[VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory]]'' allows you to play as one of two sides: one is UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, guess who the other is? Considering you know how the war turns out the implication is a given. In this specific case, however, it's probably less an intentional use of this trope, and more paralleling the singleplayer games.